Re: Regression problem with gp5-rc2: make pdf fails

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:16:30 -0500 (EST)
Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> 
> >
> > I seem to have a problem building the PDF of
> > the doc with RC2.
> >
> > After
> > 	./configure
> > 	make
> > 	make install
> >
> > I ran:
> > 	make pdf
> > which resulted in an error msg:
> > 	! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.
> > which is funny, because I have a pretty complete
> > Latex installation (including texlive-pictures).
> >
> > I was surprised - at least in my memory I was able
> > to create the PDF for RC1 without a problem.
> >
> > Is this a known problem or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> This seems relevant:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/patches/432/

Thanks for pointing this out. 

I don't understand Ethan's comment to this patch:
I have never needed "picins" to include graphics
(both EPS and PDF) into Latex docs - I do it all
the time, without picins in my local Tex installation:
just
	\usepackage{graphicx}
and
	\includegraphics{...}

In any case, apparently it is NOT a regression (I 
am correcting myself here): upon further research, 
I do not think I ever built gnuplot.pdf myself. 

Nevertheless, I wonder whether we should get rid of
this odd dependency. 

Best,

		Ph.



> 
> Allin Cottrell